You would hope that if and when you ever need surgery, your medical team has your best interests at heart. Unfortunately, that’s not always the case, as one women recently discovered.

Ethel Easter got a bad feeling about her doctor when he not-so-kindly told her she’d have to wait two months to have hernia surgery. “I was like, ‘I can’t wait for two months, I’m terribly ill,'” she tells Houston’s Fox 26. “He said, ‘Who do you think you are? You have to wait just like everybody else.'”

Feeling nervous about him after that, Ethel decided to secretly tape her surgery by hiding a small recorder in her hair extensions. And when she heard the playback, it wasn’t pretty.

Ethel Easter was shocked to hear how medical professionals spoke about her in the operating room.FOX 26

As soon as Ethel started to snore, the surgeon began to criticize her. “She’s a handful,” he says in the recording. “She had some choice words for us in the clinic when we didn’t book her case in two weeks.” Then, he mimicked Ethel: “I’m going to call a lawyer and file a complaint,” he says, while laughter can be heard in the background.

And it only got worse: Some of the staff began to criticize her body. “Did you see her belly button?” a female voice says, followed by laughter. Someone is also heard saying, “Precious, meet Precious,” which Ethel says she thinks is in reference to Gabourey Sidibe’s character in the movie Precious.

The tape also picked up some of the staffers referring to her as “the queen,” and the surgeon at one point says he feels bad for her husband. Geez.

Ethel says she isn’t planning to sue the surgeons or practice as of now, but she wants to raise awareness about what happened to her.

It’s worth pointing out that recording your own surgery isn’t something everyone can or should try, since privacy laws in some states require that both parties be aware they’re being recorded. (Texas only requires that one person consent.)

But, if you get a bad feeling about your surgeon before an operation, it’s probably worth looking elsewhere. Undergoing surgery is bad enough without worrying about what’s being said (or done) while you’re out cold.